Check the amazing looking Ibis Cycles Ripley frame we now have in stock.
Ibis Ripley now in stock
For further info or to purchase this frame please call 01694 781515.
Check out some amazing tech tip videos on the Ibis Ripley.
Setting the correct sag on your suspension bike is a fundamental but super important part of getting the most out of your ride. This video shows you how to achieve a perfectly balanced front and rear end. We show you how on a Ripley, but it applies to any of our dw-link suspension bikes.
This video shows you how to replace the eccentric link bearings in a Ripley 29er. We don’t think anyone will be doing this for a good long time, but this video has a side benefit, it’s a great peek into the inner workings of the Ripley.
Here’s a quick tutorial on removing and replacing the press fit BB 92 bottom bracket bearings on your Ripley 29 or your Mojo SL-R.
The Ripley features clean cable routing through the top tube and options based on whether or now you are running a dropper post and a front derailleur. There’s a neat trick mentioned in her that will help you keep those cables whisper quiet inside your top tube.
Blazing Bikes/ MTB Shropshire is here for all your Ibis needs. Sales, servicing and repairs on the whole Ibis Cycles range. For further info please call the shop on 01694 781515.
We have a one large blue Ibis Ripley frame arriving tomorrow. For further info or to purchase this please call 01694 781515.
Ibis Ripley frame- Large, blue
Check out a couple of the new colours for the Banshee Rune V2′s. If you would like to get your order in please call the shop on 01694 781515. New Fox and Cane Creek shock options available.
2014 Banshee Rune V2
2014 Banshee Rune V2
2014 Banshee Rune in fluro green and black ano stealth with black decals. You can expect to see these coming into store around September. We have ordered a full fleet of new Rune V2′s and Spitfire V2′s so you can try before you buy.
Coming soon to Blazing Bikes/ MTB Shropshire Evil Uprising trail bike. 150mm of full carbon trail weaponry.
Evil Uprising
To start with we have a medium (17″) and a medium/large (18.5″) Evil Uprising frames. Full pricing and more pics soon, frames come with Fox CTD Kashima shock.
Over the past year, photos of the new Evil Uprising trail bike have surfaced on the internet under pro riders and a few very lucky e-riders. The 6″ travel carbon trail bike hasn’t been officially released but several were wandering around Sea Otter. Luckily, we managed to catch up with Kevin Walsh, the owner of Evil, and talk for a few minutes about the new bike.
While the various pros and sponsored riders were running a variety of different setups, the one pictured above closely resembles what a stock high end build might look like when completes become available. A frame only option will also be available and you can expect final builds to be light with the company aiming for a sub 6 lb production frame (w/o shock).
Evil Uprising
A flip chip in the rear will allow the the head tube angle to be adjusted between 66.5 to 67.2 degrees when mated with a 150mm fork.
The frame utilizes Dave Weagle’s patented Delta System. It’s essentially a single pivot system with a unique trick. You can adjust the flip chips for a slacker or steeper geometry without having to readjust your suspension. Remarkably, adjusting the flip-chips does not affect the leverage rate of the frame.
Evil Uprising
According to Geometry specs released last year when the first prototypes were announced, with a 150mm fork (520mm AC):
| High |
| -HA 67.62 -BB 13.48/342.5mm -WB 44.0/1120.0 mm -CS 430mm/16.9? -SA 72.8 |
| Low |
| -HA-66.5 -BB 13.00/330.0mm -WB 44.25/1124.09mm -CS 433.97mm/17.08? -SA 71.76 |
For more info on the Evil Uprising or to place your pre-order please call 01694 781515.
Check out the all new Orange Bikes Alpine 160. Available from Blazing Bikes on 01694 781515. Best prices and service on Orange Bikes.
Key Features at a glance:
Alpine 160 AM – £2799.99 – Available 3 June 2013
Orange Alpine 160 AM
This bike is pretty much the Five AM replacement. Designed to be a proper all-round mountain bike for proper mountains. With a double crankset and bashring, it keeps your options open, taking on the all the ups and downs from trail centres to unknown back-country adventures.
Alpine 160 AM on Orange BIkes’ site.
Alpine 160 RS – £3,599.99 - Available 17 June 2013
Orange Alpine 160 RS
A single chainring 1×10 set-up with a dropper post as standard equipment, this one’s built for the tough guys. It’s fast, big-travel trail bike and the perfect Enduro tool.
Alpine 160 RS on Orange BIkes’ site.
Alpine 160 Frame – from £1,599.99 : Available immediately
Orange Alpine 160 Frame
Light, sleek, reliable single pivot rear suspension. We cannot think of a better starting point for a big travel all-mountain bike. (Image shown has optional Hope Seat Clamp, Fox Float Factory Series CTD Kashima rear shock)
Alpine 160 Frame on Orange Bikes’ site.
What Orange have said:
Our big mountain 160 mm travel chassis gets an overhaul. With ‘best-in-class’ plaudits from all directions for the last version of the Alpine 160, we had to be sure not to take anything away from that magic formula. After a long development period and lots of careful design tweaks, the feedback from our test riders says we’ve got it right.
The redesigned frame set sheds two thirds of a pound (or 0.3 of a kilo if you’re that way inclined). The pivot point has been tweaked to make the rear suspension more active with newer platform shocks, plus we’ve added touches like the 142 x 12 rear axle drop-outs, and we’ve brought back the shock-slider for the geometry adjustment boffins. All in all it adds up to the best handling, best climbing Alpine 160 to date.
As far as that old wheel size debate goes, when it comes to tight, steep, gnarly and rough; 26 inch wheels with burly tyres have never let us down, and that’s not about to happen. While it’s fashionable to assert all the pros and cons of various wheel sizes, sometimes you just need to get on and ride, and that’s exactly what this bike is about, no-nonsense ride-ability in the most challenging of situations. Whatever the size of your round things.
Still no slouch on the climbs. Still the bike that will find traction where others fail and spin you to the top of technical climbs with ease. In the most literal sense of the term, the Alpine 160 is a mountain bike, built for anything.
You can expect to see a fully kitted Alpine 160 demo bike very soon here at MTB Shropshire/ Blazing Bikes. Call 01694 781515 for further details or to order your cool new Alpine 160
Here’s a few words off the Dirt Magazine website on shop sales vs direct sales! What are your thoughts?
In the latest issue of Dirt (135) I wrote the piece below on whether ‘direct’ sales are the future of the bike industry, and questioned what the future holds for the traditional bike shop. Obviously what I’ve written is my view on the subject, and so it would be great to know what all your thoughts are on the matter. I mean do you stand by your local bike shop, and will you always support it no matter what? Or are you more concerned with getting the most bang for your buck? Do you feel that shops offer you a great service, or do you think that done correctly a direct sale could actually offer better service? And have you already bought a bike product ‘direct’, or is something putting you off? Anyway, enough of the questions cos I’m sure you get the drift, but here’s what I originally wrote on the subject…
Unless you’ve been living in a cupboard you’ve almost certainly noticed that there’s an ever increasing number of companies who are now selling us products ‘direct’ at what seem to be unbelievable prices. The whole ‘cutting out the middleman’ ethos is nothing new, but it’s only in the past couple of years that this way of doing business has really taken off in the bike trade, and unfortunately for shops I can only see the trend growing.
In the past I have worked in several bike shops, and for many years, so if anyone should be keen to keep the shop tradition alive it should be me. But, I know full well that if I was a regular Joe paying customer right now I would be seriously tempted to buy something direct. The cold hard facts are that if you cut out both distributor and shop margins you can automatically chop a huge percentage off the price tag of a product, and in many cases there is no reason why that product can’t be exactly the same as one in a shop, just a lot cheaper. So why the hell would you go to a shop?
Well at the moment perhaps the biggest reason to buy from a shop (whether it be online or in your local town) is choice. You simply can’t buy a lot of products direct. That though I feel will become less and less of a valid argument as more products are offered direct, so let’s for a moment assume that every product is available via both channels. What can a shop offer that direct can’t? Service. That’s the age-old answer. It’s not a simple thing to define though. Advice has to be a key part of that, but then if the truth be told many shops have staff that can offer little in the way of advice to an experienced rider. Of course there are some genuinely great shops and staff out there who can offer words of wisdom to even the most knowledgeable of cyclists, but sadly I think these are in the minority. Your traditional ‘Raleigh Dealer’ at the end of the street might be able to offer some advice to parents about what bike to buy their kid, but I doubt they’ll be able to tell you whether or not you can use IceTec rotors with your Formula brakes.
On the flipside to all this if you’re buying direct then you’ll hopefully be dealing with the very people who designed and manufactured the part that you’re interested in, and therefore the people that know most about it. Obviously you’re not likely to get any impartial advice, but if you know what you’re after then maybe dealing direct is actually better? Yes you might have to arrange sending your bike/component somewhere should anything go wrong, but at least you will be dealing directly with the company involved, and it’s certainly no worse than buying something mail order. Any costs that you might incur doing this should also be more than offset by the original savings that you made.
I originally set out writing this with a very clear mind that I was going to give a balanced view on this subject, but the more I think about it the harder I find it. With my background that I have mentioned before I find this very sad, and the fact that if shops were to disappear a massive percentage of the bike industry would lose their jobs just makes it even worse. On the positive side though I reckon that will never happen, there will always be a place for bike shops no matter how much direct selling takes off, and despite the ever present threat from online retailers. Some will probably continue to make a living from catering for the casual cyclist (the ones who don’t just buy a bike from Halfords or the supermarket that is), but then I think we’ll see far more emphasis on the repair side of the business. If I was thinking of setting up a bike shop I’d probably just focus on repairs because whatever happens with how stuff is sold people will still need their bikes repairing locally.
Whatever happens I think the future is going to be interesting and you the consumer are going to benefit in one way or another. Will the direct sellers adopt ‘Concept Stores’ like those from Giant and Specialized as a way of showing off their wares in the flesh? Or will they organise test ride weekends so that you can actually try them out properly? Who knows, but if the choice of ‘direct’ products continues to grow I’m really not sure how much longer people will be willing to pay the considerable premium that is involved if you buy something from a conventional bike shop. Will you be willing to?
My point of view:
As a shop manager your always up against “can you price match this” or “what’s the best you can do on that”. I think that is part of every day life with people obviously trying to get the best deal for their hard earned money. But in terms of the bike industry unless you are quite a savvy home mechanic half the battle is fitting, set-up, tuning, etc… The sort of things you can not get from an online retailer.
If i’m parting with my hard earned cash I want to look someone in the eye and know that the after sales and care is going to be there. The sort of service you can get from an independent retailer. I don’t want to email a faceless company or talk to a call centre in Russia, I want to pop into the local store and say “can you tweak this” or “can you true my wheel”.
Pricing wise independents can be competitive and can offer a lot more than an online store. If you have just brought your 06 Kona off CRC for £700 and want it built up, you either have to have a go yourself or go and see your friendly local retailer with a vast array of tools and knowledge to do it for you. Most of the time you old front mech wont fit and rear wheel spacing is wrong. All the sort of things that would have been advised in store if you visit a local store.
If the industry keeps going the way it is you won’t be able to get that helping hand that people do need.
So in my humble opinion if you do want the most competitive prices and the best follow up service drop us a line on 01694 781515. You may be surprised.
One of our customers has had their Banshee Rune V2 stolen!! Not cool!!
Here is the full spec of what’s on it in the words of the owner:
Bike is new only been used 4 times.
it is very distinctive both because the colour and because of the make.
there shouldnt be many out there.
components wise.
frame or bike will be missing the spare back end chips to change the angle and geometry of bike.
has a very long screw replacement as i lost one of the screws for the chips (basically it petrudes)
Stolen Banshee Rune V2
We are very aware of what popular bikes the Banshee’s are, but there is no need to steal one! If you have any further info on this please give us a call on 01694 781515.
We are getting very, very busy on the Banshee front at the moment. If you would like to pre-order or demo anything in the Banshee range please give us a call on 01694 781515.
99% of the frames we have coming in our pre-sold. If you would like to secure one all we ask for is a 10% deposit. We also offer 0% finance on all Banshee frames and full builds.
Banshee Bikes U.K
If your looking for a Banshee come give us a call on 01694 781515. We are the U.K premier Banshee stockist and demo centre.
Banshee Rune V2 Demo
Banshee Rune V2 Custom Build
We currently have a large Banshee Rune V2 demo bike and have a large raw Spitfire on the way.
Check out a cracking review on the Banshee Spitfire from the guys at Vital MTB here.
We have just placed our 2014 pre-order for Banshee, so if you would like to put your name down for a bike give us a call.
Here at MTB Shropshire/ Blazing Bikes we are located at the base of the Long Mynd so perfect to demo our Banshee’s. We also have Hopton and Eastridge 15 minutes away.
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Hire one of our fleet of Trail Ready Hard Tail bikes. Available to book now. We hire Orange G2 Hardtail bikes of various sizes. Orange bikes are renowned for their build quality and reliability so whatever trail you decide to ride, these bikes will do the job perfectly. We also have Power Assisted Electric bikes for when you need that little assistance.
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